Lyle Waggoner Dies: ‘Carol Burnett Show’ & ‘Wonder Woman Actor Was 84
Lyle Waggoner, the 1960s and ’70s heartthrob recognized for his work on The Carol Burnett Present and the Surprise Woman TV sequence, has died. Waggoner died peacefully at his residence Tuesday after battling an sickness, in accordance with TMZ, which was first to report his demise. He was 84.
In 1965, Waggoner examined for the title function within the 20th Century Fox/ABC sequence Batman, however misplaced the job to Adam West.He landed a task on the Western sequence Gunsmoke in 1966. A yr later, he started a seven-year stint, first as an announcer, on The Carol Burnett Present. Producers later started to include him into the present as a comedy sketch companion together with regulars Vicki Lawrence and Harvey Korman, because the attractive straight-man foil to the ogling Burnett. He left the present in 1974, in hopes of advancing his profession as a lead actor. He was changed on the present by frequent visitor star Tim Conway, and his function as announcer by Ernie Anderson.
Waggoner turned Playgirl’s first male seminude centerfold in 1973, and a yr after leaving Carol Burnett, he booked the function of Steve Trevor reverse Lynda Carter on TV sequence Surprise Girl. Initially set throughout World Conflict II, he started within the function of Steve Trevor for the primary season and performed Steve Trevor Jr. within the subsequent two seasons when the timeline jumped to the 1970s.
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